A photographer friend, the talented Aram Jibilian, was passing by Times Square on Saturday April 21, 2007, and fortunately snapped these photos of the disturbing Turkish-funded rally that denies the reality of the Armenian Genocide.
It is shocking that there were so many children at the rally holding up professionally-prepared signs. How sad it is that Turkish youth are being brainwashed by Turkish nationalists not only in Turkey but now also here in America.
Aram writes:
Took these shots over the weekend on Saturday as I was walking through Times Square. Came across a rally of Turkish deniers with these crazy racist depictions of Armenians as murderous pinocchios. My favorite slogan though was ” Armenian lies are genocide of the TRUTH”…Now I don’t want to split hairs, but isn’t genocide clearly defined as the systematic mass killings of humans of a certain population. If one was lying, I guess you could call it “killing” the TRUTH, but “genocide” of the truth?
Complete photos here.
The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) has also posted a video of the Turkish denial protest in Washington, DC the same weekend.
Today’s New York Times also has a full page ad (page 5) from the Turkish government using their latest denial tactic of supporting a commission to decide the “truth”–the fact is that only one country (Turkey) hasn’t accepted the truth, everyone knows the reality (PDF-805KB).
UPDATE: More photos of the the denialist Times Square rally on Flikr (here)–courtesy Blogian.
UPDATE 2: LittleGreenFootballs.com has a great post on Sunday’s Times Square Rally (link)–the 133 comments (by non-Armenian & non-Turks) are a great read! {hat tip to IArarat}
UPDATE 3: The godfather of Armo blogging, Raffi K., reports from Yerevan on this year’s Armenian Genocide Commemmorations (link).
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